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Lottery to offer gift cards in pilot program

Monday, Nov. 11, 2002 | 11:01 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Lottery has picked the holiday season for a pilot program offering gift cards that can be used to play several lottery games.

The "Wild Cards," essentially a gift certificate, will be sold from Monday through Feb. 2 by 380 lottery agents in central Ohio.

Cards can be purchased in amounts ranging from $5 to $50. The recipient can spend the money at once or a dollar at a time on tickets generated by a lottery terminal -- such as Super Lotto or Pick 3 -- or on instant tickets.

Lottery policy limits cards to a maximum of $50, but they can be recharged up to 500 times.

Mardele Cohen, a spokeswoman for the lottery, said Saturday that lottery officials plan to offer the cards statewide on Feb. 3, though she was not sure how much revenue they would generate.

"No one's done it in the country so far. We really don't have anything to measure it," she said. "We'll be tracking it very closely."

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